Common Dreams: Exxon Mobil Becomes Focus of a Boycott

[Raster]

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0712-02.htm

Published on Tuesday, July 12, 2005 by the International Herald Tribune
Exxon Mobil Becomes Focus of a Boycott
by Felicity Barringer

A coalition of environmental and liberal lobbying groups is planning to boycott Exxon Mobil products to protest the company's challenges to warnings about global warming and its support for oil and gas exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The boycott is part of a planned public relations campaign across the United States to brand Exxon Mobil, the country's biggest oil company, as an "outlaw," the groups say.

A spokesman for Exxon Mobil, the largest publicly traded oil company in the world, said in an e-mail message that it did recognize the risk of climate change. The spokesman, Russ Roberts, said Exxon Mobil had committed to "investments and strategic planning that address emissions today, as well as industry-leading research on technologies with the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the future."

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Among the groups involved in the campaign against Exxon Mobil, which was scheduled to start on Tuesday with news conferences across the United States and a new Web site, www.exxposeexxon.com, are the U.S. Public Interest Group, Defenders of Wildlife, the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Union of Concerned Scientists and MoveOn.org Political Action.

Carl Pope, the Sierra Club's executive director, said the campaign aimed either to get Exxon Mobil to change or "to encourage other oil companies" to improve their environmental stewardship. "The other oil companies have aspirations" for environmental performance, he said.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0712-02.htm

[Firenze777]

1. Already doing that

It's the most convenient station for me, and I drive right by it for the hard to get to Citgo. I'm still furious with them for never paying up in Alaska.....let alone what they have been bold enough to do since Cheney & Co took charge......

[tex-wyo-dem]

2. Thanks for this...

I've also been doing my own personal boycott of Exxon since the Valdez spill. Lucky for me there's a Citgo right across the street from Exxon :)

[DinahMoeHum]

3. Citgo has the cheapest price gas in my area. So screw ExxonMobil.

:evilgrin:

[Jack Rabbit]

4. Long overdue

Europeans have been boycotting ExxonMobil (Esso) for years.

The world will be a better place without transnational coprorations like Exxon and GM. Let's give them the coup de grace.

[hadrons]

5. should be easy in NYC, Exxon has some mean prices at the pump ....

one station in the Bronx has $2.69 for regular and $2.99 for supreme